{"id":300734,"date":"2023-10-27T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=300734"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T22:00:29","slug":"expansive-pro-abortion-law-maine-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/expansive-pro-abortion-law-maine-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Expansive pro-abortion law in Maine has taken effect: ‘That’s the opposite of health’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Maine law removing virtually all protections for preborn children has taken effect.<\/p>\n

Earlier this summer, Governor Janet Mills signed<\/a> into law LD 1619<\/a>, which allows abortion until birth for any reason. The law went into place 90 days after her signature. \u201cMaine is following best medical practice by modernizing our laws to get politicians out of reproductive health care and to make clear that the difficult decision of whether to have an abortion later in pregnancy will be made by a woman and her doctor, not anyone else,\u201d Mills said before signing the bill. \u201cWe must recognize the complexity of pregnancy. And like every other health care procedure, we\u2019ve got to take government out of the decision-making process and put the doctor and the patient in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet induced abortion, the direct and intentional killing of a preborn child, is not health care.<\/p>\n

Under the new law, preborn children diagnosed with a disability or abnormality can be subjected to a late abortion so long as a physician claims the abortion is “necessary.” In a massive conflict of interest, the abortionist committing the procedure can be the physician who vouches for its necessity; considering how much money<\/a> abortionists make on later abortions, they would have a lot to lose by saying the abortion is not needed.<\/p>\n